Based on my Rubenstein - Reib 2nd cousin's tests, it looks like our family also came from Shavli district, probably from Zagare or Vieksniai originally. We share a significant amount of DNA with a descendant of a Reiben from Zagare. There are also Reebs from Vieksniai. This is an uncommon name and the coincidence of sharing DNA, settling in the same small town in iowa, and sharing an uncommon surname makes me think that Reib and possibly Rubenstein were not originally from Ukraine but had come to Ukraine from Zagare or Vieksniai.
I would encourage those of you from these villages to have autosomal DNA testing and to email me on Geni or elsewhere, especially if you have a Rubenstein or Reib / Reeb / Reibin / Rubin ancestor. If you are a male, you should also consider Y-DNA testing since we will have a Reib male descendant tested in the near future.
Based on these DNA results, I will be looking more closely at all the families who intermarried in Lithuania with Reibin, such as Fisch (Zagare).
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